Sudanese woman released again after brief arrest


A Sudanese woman freed from death row on Monday has been released again after being briefly detained with her family, yesterday, at Khartoum airport.

Meriam Ibrahim was sentenced in May to hang for renouncing Islam, sparking widespread outrage at home and abroad.
About 40 security agents detained Mrs Ibrahim – along with her husband, Daniel Wani and two children – at the airport, the sources said.

But Sudan has told the US that she and her family have now been released.
“They were temporarily detained for several hours over questions related to their documents,” Marie Harf, a spokeswoman for the US state department, told journalists.

Sudan’s government had assured the US that Mrs Ibrahim and her family were safe, Ms Harf added.
She said the US is working with Sudan to ensure their safe passage out of the country.

Earlier, a top Sudanese official told the BBC that although Mrs Ibrahim is Sudanese, she was using emergency South Sudanese papers with a US visa.

She would be asked to get a passport and exit visa on her release, Abdullahi Alzareg from the ministry of foreign affairs said.
Mrs Ibrahim’s husband is a Christian from what is now South Sudan and has US nationality.
One of Mrs Ibrahim’s lawyers, el-Shareef Ali, told the BBC that her legal team had been denied access to her.
The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) is an extremely powerful body, which frequently intervenes in Sudanese politics.

It is a key part of the informal coalition – also comprising the military, Islamists and pragmatists – which rules Sudan.
The different components are constantly jockeying for a better position.

In recent times, NISS has been flexing its muscles.
It is very possible that NISS did not like the decision to release Meriam Ibrahim, and rearresting her and her family was a way of making this point to the rest of the Sudanese government.

However, security is not a homogenous entity either.

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